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Senate Takes Up ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
The Dispatch
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June 5, 2025
Happy Thursday! Upon being told that he was being called up to the big leagues, Seattle Mariners prospect Cole Young immediately phoned his family, and, as excited as he was to be called up, his mother’s enthusiasm might have trumped his own....
5 things to know for June 5: Travel ban, Israel-Hamas war, Universities, Manhunt, Oil spill
KMIZ ABC 17 - Missouri
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June 5, 2025
By Jade Walker (CNN) — New Zealand legislators voted today to suspend three lawmakers from Parliament who performed a Māori haka last November in protest of a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and the leaders of her...
Presidency: Tinubu’s Diplomatic Shuttles Have Attracted $50bn FDIs in Two Years
This Day
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June 3, 2025
•Says president made 36 foreign trips across Africa, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Americas DejiElumoyein Abuja The presidency, yesterday, disclosed that the international trips embarked upon by President Bola Tinubu since he assumed office about two...
Daily Briefing: Sorrow in Bengaluru
The Indian Express
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June 5, 2025
We are starting today’s edition with an update from Trumpworld, where the President has signed a proclamation to ban travel to the United States from 12 countries, citing national security reasons and protection from “foreign terrorists”. In a...
Presidency: Tinubu Attracted $50b Through Foreign Trips In Two Years
New Telegraph
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June 2, 2025
Share The Presidency has disclosed that President Bola Tinubu’s international engagements have attracted over $50 billion in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Nigeria since he assumed office two years ago. This was revealed on Monday by the...
The Frequency School Breaks GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM Title For The 195 Song Featuring The Most Nationalities
MENAFN
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June 2, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) The Frequency School co-founded by U.S. Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum music producer Maejor, Martina Fuchs, Kingsley M, Brandon Lee and Aaron Dawson produced this visionary, powerful and universal campaign and premiered...
Energy transition: How to bankroll Nigeria’s gas shift –Minister
The Sun Nigeria
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May 7, 2025
From Adewale Sanyaolu, Houston, Texas As the energy transition initiative advances, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Mr. Ekperikpe Ekpo, has said Nigeria must align with global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)...
E Guinea Relaunches Licensing Process
Business Ghana
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Equatorial Guinea has officially relaunched its open-door licensing process for 2025, setting the stage for a major licensing round at the end of 2025 or early 2026. This move marks a strategic shift toward prioritizing licensing and exploration,...
IATA removes Nigeria from list of countries blocking airlines’ funds
The Cable
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June 3, 2025
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says Nigeria has been removed from the list of countries with unrepatriated airlines’ revenue — otherwise known as blocked or trapped funds. Kamil Al-Awadhi, IATA’s regional vice-president for...
Sowing Resilience: From the Roots of Africa to a world without Hunger
Ghana News Agency
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May 28, 2025
Accra, May 28, GNA-Science-led agricultural transformation is the only sustainable path to ending hunger, creating jobs, and building resilient economies. Marking the world marks World Hunger Day 2025, reminds that food was not just a basic need,...
First Lady Fatima Bio Chairs OAFLAD 2nd Steering Committee Meeting
Sierraloaded
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June 2, 2025
First Lady Fatima Maada Bio, serving as President of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD), chaired the 2nd Steering Committee Meeting, which brought together fellow First Ladies and country representatives committed to...
Powering sub-Saharan Africa’s energy future
SA Instrumentation & Control
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Powering sub-Saharan Africa’s energy future May 2025 Level Measurement & Control Crude oil storage plays an important role in the energy infrastructure of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), supporting the production, distribution and export of oil across...
Trump could be shipping deported migrants to Rwanda under newest proposal
The Independent
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May 5, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
FM: Hungary can stay out of Ukraine war only by preserving its sovereignty
About Hungary
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April 1, 2025
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said Hungary can stay out of the war in Ukraine only by preserving its sovereignty. After talks with Equatorial Guinea counterpart Simeon Oyono Esono Angue in Budapest on Monday, Minister...
Kosmos Energy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Joins African Energy Week (AEW) 2025 Following Major Production Milestones
MENAFN
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May 27, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) (MENAFN- APO Group) Andrew Inglis, Chairman and CEO of upstream energy company Kosmos Energy, has joined this year's African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies 2025 conference – set for September 29 to October 3 in...
X-raying Tinubu’s 2 years’ foreign policy
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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May 30, 2025
Foreign Affairs analysts have expressed the view that Nigeria’s foreign policy under President Bola Tinubu since his assumption of office on May 29, 2023, has been a mixed bag of the old and the new. It has been a continuity of the nation’s...
"11 of the World’s 20 Fastest-Growing Economies in 2025 Are in Sub-Saharan Africa" (Amadou Sy, IMF)
Business in Cameroon
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April 28, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - Despite some positive surprises, Sub-Saharan Africa faces less vigorous growth forecasts, with necessary reforms in a global environment marked by shifting priorities among world leaders: Amadou Nicolas Racine Sy,...
Africa’s Modern Chains!! Debt Crisis Deepens Economic Injustice Across the Continent
Zambian Observer
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May 27, 2025
Africa’s Modern Chains!! Debt Crisis Deepens Economic Injustice Across the Continent Once plundered of its wealth and people by colonial empires, Africa now finds itself shackled by a new kind of bondage called debt. This modern form of economic...
IGAD urges member states to honour 10 per cent agriculture budget pledge
The Standard
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Dignitaries led by Dr. Mohi Tahomi, IGAD Director Cooperation and Regional Integration Division and IGAD's Food System Resilience Project Coordinator, Dr. Senait Regassa during RAIP validation event on Monday. [Courtesy] The Intergovernmental...
The Time is Ripe for Liberia's Non-Permanent Seat on the UN ...
Modern Ghana
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As the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) prepares for the next round of elections of members for non-permanent seats in June 2025, member states must recognize and empower the Republic of Liberia, which has historically demonstrated its...